Howdy. Its Wednesday January 26th 2011, approximately 10:33pm. I just completed my 5 hours of studying for the night... Well kinda five hours... took Reese on a short run, ate some food. Things have been going pretty well all things considered. I think I left you last time with a brief rundown of my first day of class. Today was my fourth day at the academy... yesterday was my first day of EMT training. Monday Wednesday Friday are fire school days and tuesday thursday are EMT days. On fire days I have to get up at 5am...We have to be at school, dressed, and ready for PT (physical training) by 7:20. As class prez I am responsible for leading stretches. As you may recall from my previous posts I was pretty conce rned about PT and how I would do with the fellas. WELL.... turns out I didnt have much to worry about at all. I was totally and completely shocked after our first PT last friday. There are guys in my class who struggled mightily just to get through the warmup. It is not an exaggeration to say that of the 30 recruits in my class I am physically in the top 6 or 7... Its seriously baffelling how out of shape some of these people are. Cant do pushups, cant do basic cardio, cant walk and chew gum... So with all that said I am feeling MUCH better about dominating the physical aspects. Class on the otherhand is a bit more nerve racking. On fire days we are in class from 9:30 to 5 and EMT days from 8-5. So you can imagine how much information they are throwing at us in that time. Pretty overwhelming. I aced my first two fire quizez on wednesday and have my first EMT quizes tomorrow. We have at least one quiz everyday and if our grade average drops below 75% we can be removed from the program (eeek)
We were issued our bunker gear today (fire pants/coat/boots) as well as our respirator facepiece. It was quite interesting trying to find shit that fit me properly but worked out pretty well since I ended up getting nearly new equiptment. We will be getting our first hands on experience on friday when we get out the SCBA (self-contained-breathing-apparatus)... which we just call air paks usually. I will bring my gear home this weekend and try to get a picture up maybe... I havent actually seen myself in it so Im a little courious myself.
The routine is getting rather diffucult already... getting up early. being in class ALL day. studying ALL night. But hopefully now that we have drudged through the kinda boring beginning stuff it will get easier. The program is almost exactly 4 months long so to cater to my meathead-jock tendencies I am breaking it down into quarters. If you start a game slow in the first quarter you generally F**k yourself for the whole game so Im trying desperately not to start flat. Studying is like practice... if you learn your plays you win... if you're prepared you win. So Ive just gotta stay my ass at practice and win this bitch. All I do is win win win no matter what.
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